Three charged in Mississippi police murder — but does this case mean it’s all-out war?

The Daily Mail reports that “a law enforcement official says three people have been arrested and two of them have been charged with capital murder in the fatal shootings of two Mississippi police officers during a weekend traffic stop in Hattiesburg.”

“Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, tells The Associated Press that 29-year-old Marvin Banks and 22-year-old Joanie Calloway have each been charged with two counts of capital murder, and Banks’ 26-year-old brother, Curtis Banks, has been charged with two counts of accessory after the fact of capital murder.”

Officers Benjamin Deen, 34, and Liquori Tate, 25 were shot and killed Saturday night in Hattiesburg during a routine traffic stop. They were discovered by Hattiesburg residents who called 911 after finding the stricken officers on the ground.

No longer can either “side” call these murders racially motivated. Now it appears to be an attack on our uniformed law enforcement as a whole. After all, the six officers now facing questionable charges in the death of Freddie Gray are evenly split racially.

Sadly, our nation is still violently split along color lines – except now the color under attack is blue.

Meet Allen West

Allen West was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia in the same neighborhood where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once preached. He is the third of four generations of military servicemen in his family.

During his 22 year career in the United States Army, Lieutenant Colonel West served in several combat zones: in Operation Desert Storm, in Operation Iraqi Freedom, where he was a Battalion Commander in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division, and later in Afghanistan.